Drug watchdog suspends production of Dongwha’s anti-diarrheal medications

Korea‘s drug watchdog said Tuesday that it has imposed a ban on the production of Dong-A Pharmaceutical’s anti-diarrheal medication Lacterol, which has been in three different dosage forms.

The move by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety comes as the company was found to have used a combination of two different strains of lactobacillus in making Lacteol than the one that was originally appr...